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  • 1989
  • R
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 1989
  • R
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 53 m

Summary Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a see...

Directed By: Peter Yates

Written By: Larry Brothers

  • 1989
  • R
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 1989
  • R
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 53 m

An Innocent Man

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a see...

Directed By: Peter Yates

Written By: Larry Brothers

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
39
27% Positive
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
40% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
39
27% Positive
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
40% Negative
6 Reviews

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75
An Innocent Man is no White Heat, and Selleck is no James Cagney. But this kind of fast-paced entertainment is almost top of the world, ma. [06 Oct 1989, p.5D]
By Susan Wloszczyna FULL REVIEW
63
An Innocent Man is a fairly effective melodramatic thriller, and the prison scenes are powerful. [06 Oct 1989, p.3E]
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50
Its logic is so simple, its emotion is so heartfelt, its editing and composition are so fluid, it seems to be a perfectly-crafted contemporary drama. Yet, in retrospect, it's a difficult movie to stomach. The problem with Brothers' script is that he and Yates paint characters with unbelievably broad strokes. [06 Oct 1989, p.12]
By Hal Lipper FULL REVIEW
50
This 1989 movie looks much of the time like an old idea that's been too enthusiastically colorized. The prison sequences work best, and they seem almost like a completely separate film.
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38
An Innocent Man has all the elements to put us through an emotional wringer, but the movie never works up any enthusiasm for them. It's the most relaxed crime movie of the year.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
30
More than enough sadism to go around. But the net effect is less excitement than overkill. The screenplay, by Larry Brothers, has a tendency to forget old plot elements as it picks up new ones.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
20
This collection of cliches accomplishes the almost unthinkable by bringing the prison genre to a new low.
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Production Company Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, Interscope Communications
Release Date Oct 6, 1989
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating R
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Tagline Falsely accused. Unjustly convicted. Determined to survive on the inside. Demanding justice once he's on the outside.
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